{"id":8118,"date":"2016-11-01T06:12:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T10:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8118"},"modified":"2019-11-08T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T14:04:28","slug":"the-farmer-in-the-dell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8118","title":{"rendered":"The Farmer In The Dell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/The_Farmer_In_The_Dell.png\" width=\"500\/\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/The_Farmer_In_The_Dell.mp3\"> The Farmer In The Dell &#8211; Click To Play<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nThis is a classic children&#8217;s song and game brought to the United States by German immigrants in the mid 1820s. It has been translated into many languages around the world. In the game the players form a circle and hold hands. One person is selected to be the farmer. The people in the circle move around and the farmer chooses a wife. The wife joins the farmer in the center and chooses the child. They all choose someone until the cheese is left standing alone. It has a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roud_Folk_Song_Index\">Roud Folk Song Index number of 6306.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My wife Camilla remembers playing this game when she was a little girl in Beaufort South Carolina.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>[G] The farmer in the dell (2x)<br \/>\nHi-ho, the derry-o<br \/>\nThe farmer [D] in the [G] dell<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental:<br \/>\n[Em] [D] [G]<\/p>\n<p>The farmer takes a wife (2\u00c3\u2014)<br \/>\nHi-ho, the derry-o\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nThe farmer takes a wife<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental:<br \/>\n[Em] [D] [G]<\/p>\n<p>The wife takes the child (2\u00c3\u2014)<br \/>\nHi-ho, the derry-o\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nThe wife takes the child<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental:<br \/>\n[Em] [D] [G]<\/p>\n<p>The child takes the maid (2\u00c3\u2014)<br \/>\nHi-ho, the derry-o\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nThe child takes the maid<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental:<br \/>\n[Em] [D] [G]<\/p>\n<p>The maid takes the cow (2\u00c3\u2014)<br \/>\nHi-ho, the derry-o\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nThe nurse takes the cow<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental:<br \/>\n[Em] [D] [G]<\/p>\n<p>The cow takes the dog (2\u00c3\u2014)<br \/>\nHi-ho, the derry-o\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nThe cow takes the dog<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental:<br \/>\n[Em] [D] [G]<\/p>\n<p>The dog takes the cat (2\u00c3\u2014)<br \/>\nHi-ho, the derry-o\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nThe dog takes the cat<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental:<br \/>\n[Em] [D] [G]<\/p>\n<p>The cat takes the mouse (2\u00c3\u2014)<br \/>\nHi-ho, the derry-o\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nThe cat takes the mouse<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental:<br \/>\n[Em] [D] [G]<\/p>\n<p>The mouse takes the cheese (2\u00c3\u2014)<br \/>\nHi-ho, the derry-o\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nThe mouse takes the cheese<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental:<br \/>\n[Em] [D] [G]<\/p>\n<p>The cheese stands alone (2\u00c3\u2014)<br \/>\nHi-ho, the derry-o\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<br \/>\nThe cheese stands alone<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental:<br \/>\n[Em] [D] [G]<\/p>\n<p>The farmer in the dell (2x)<br \/>\nHi-ho, the derry-o<br \/>\nThe farmer in the dell<\/p>\n<p>Instrumental: X3<br \/>\n[Em] [D] [G]<\/p>\n<p>(c) McGuinn Music 2016<br \/>\nNew Music By Roger McGuinn<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: The Farmer In The Dell &#8211; Click To Play This is a classic children&#8217;s song and game brought to the United States by German immigrants in the mid 1820s. It has been translated into many languages around the world. In the game the players form a circle and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=8118\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Farmer In The Dell&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humorgameschildren"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8914,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions\/8914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}